Child! Do not throw this book about;Refrain from the unholy pleasureOf cutting all the pictures out!Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Jose Saramago

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

George Orwell

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Alice Walker

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Do you spell it with a V or a W?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'...

Charles Dickens

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Tacitus

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

John Comenius

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

James Madison

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Annie Lennox